Continuous Improvement Engineer II

ABOUT FIREFLY AEROSPACE

As an end-to-end responsive space company, Firefly Aerospace is on a mission to enable our world to launch, land, and operate in space – anywhere, anytime. Our small- to medium-lift launch vehicles, lunar landers, and orbital vehicles allow us to service the entire lifecycle of government and commercial missions from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. We utilize carbon composite structures, patented propulsion technologies, and common components across our vehicles to iterate quickly, improve reliability, and deliver payloads at a lower cost.

SUMMARY

This position is responsible to support the company’s continuous improvement goals and initiatives. Acts as a central resource for continuous improvement, assists with day-to-day production support and projects. Responsible to manage all activities for a continuous improvement philosophy, productivity, and implementation. A technical background combined with product/leadership skills is needed. This position will interact with all areas of the business. This includes but not limited to: engineering, marketing/sales, operations, quality assurance, documentation, training and supply chain.

Our Purpose

• Create and instill a continuous improvement culture throughout Firefly to drive out waste, build a steady and predictable pace of product output, and develop future Firefly leaders

Our Mission

• To serve those performing the value-added work by continuously innovating and improving

Our Core Values

• Be curious, not judgmental: we seek to understand and assume positive intent
• Go to Gemba: we go to where the work happens
• Commit to the experiment: we have a bias for action and learn by trying
• Never stop learning: we look for, share, and embrace new ideas
• Lead by example: we are accountable until the task is done, done, really done
• Have fun: we trust each other and bring our full weird selves to work

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identify areas for improvement, utilize continuous improvement methodologies to work with stakeholders and execute solutions
• Identify manufacturing cost reductions and provide ROI justifications for change
• Optimize a wide variety of processes to reach product quality, efficiency and process repeatability
• Execute LEAN manufacturing techniques and design
• Optimize work flow and cell designs and introduce cost-effective automation for productivity
• Plan, execute and manage projects to completion through continuous improvement
• Communicate continuous improvement group’s philosophy, vision and expectations
• Develop and sustain employees training and development on continuous improvement concepts
• Develop measurement systems supporting continuous improvement philosophy
• Lead value stream mapping exercises to determine and record business improvement areas
• Develop and implement project plans to achieve Future State
• Support floor layouts of new spaces and current workflows
• Support production scaleup and ramp

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum of 3 years with proven experience utilizing Lean Manufacturing initiatives
• Experience in identify waste in manufacturing processes
• Ability to understand and lead implementation of new processes
• Ability to analyze complex manufacturing data and propose changes leading to higher efficiency
• Experience motivating teams to execute on corporate and team level goals
• Self-motivated to implement goals with little supervision
• Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills to interact with all areas of business
• Strong Analytical & technical skills for all product support activities
• Multi-tasking skills are required to manage multiple projects and various project activities
• Highly hands-on and strong mechanical aptitude

Desired

• Certification in Six Sigma and/or Lean Manufacturing
• Experience in Agile methodologies
• Experience implementing new key process indicators
• Experience in rapidly accelerating production
• 3+ years in Aerospace

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.